New Yorkers send a literal mountain of stuff — over 600,000 tons of material — to be recycled through curbside recycling ...

Many items people throw in their blue recycling bin can't actually be accepted at the city's recycling facility. So what’s ...

Plastic clamshell containers: Clear plastic takeout containers with a recycling symbol can be recycled. If it's a plastic container labeled No. 1 or No. 2, you can recycle it and should whenever ...

You'll know a piece of plastic is made of polypropylene if it has the number 5 inside the recycling triangle symbol. Polypropylene is commonly used in many different applications, including ...

The collection drive has been ongoing for months, with active participation from parents, children, local shops, and ...

A key component of RIT’s recycling efforts is our mixed recycling program. Mixed recycling means that that plastic, glass, metal, paper and cardboard recyclables can be put in the same recycling ...

California sues Exxon Mobil, alleging it misled the public about the recyclability of plastics and contributed to the plastic ...

This may be the brand's own unique recycling symbol, or one of the established recycling symbols. You might see the symbol for HDPE plastic, which is what recyclable tubes are usually made from.

Plastics are undeniably useful materials that have found their way into virtually all human activities. However, with yearly global plastic production exceeding 400 million tons, the environmental ...

You can tell whether a piece of consumer plastic is PET by looking for a number “1” stamped inside the universal recycling symbol. The number you see in the symbol stands for the type of plastic used ...

On Thursday, the City Commission is scheduled to vote on a piece of legislation that would allow the city to stop its ...

The bill would add a refundable 10-cent deposit to the price of beverage containers sold in D.C. stores and create a system ...